linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] teach sendfile(2) to handle send-to-pipe directly

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:33:45 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Oliver Giles <ohw.giles@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] teach sendfile(2) to handle send-to-pipe directly

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:57:38AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:09 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > no point going through the intermediate pipe
> 
> Ok, this series looks fine to me.
> 
> Al - do you want me to apply this as patches for 5.11 (and I'll revert
> the then unnecessary one-liner), or should I expect a pull request or
> what?

I'm going to put it into #for-next for a few days, then send a pull request
your way (assuming no problems show up, obviously).